ranger fails to start

[David J. Galvan Jr]

running ranger fails to start the program and throws the output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ranger", line 58, in <module>
    import ranger
ImportError: No module named ranger

a google search led me to installing python2.6 and sym-linking /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python2.6 (default being /usr/bin/python2.7 ) ---- however, doing so causes CCSM to crash on start, so I've been symlinking back and forth.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ranger 1.4.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 20 18:57:40 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ranger
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[David J. Galvan Jr (djgalvan01)]

just thought of another simple solution, edit the shebang line in '/usr/bin/ranger' from:

#! /usr/bin/python -0

to:

#/usr/bin/python2.6 -0

of course, python2.6 will still need to be installed.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I get the same error message when attempting to run ranger on Ubuntu 11.10. I also found it had been reported to Debian already.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed in 'precise' and 'quantal'.